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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
--
The American Conflict, A History of the Great Rebellion (1864).

 

Horace Greeley

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In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.

 

John Stuart Mill

 

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe — responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

 

Tom Stoppard

 

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Nikola Tesla

 

It was ages ago in life's first wonder
I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart;
And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder,
Ages and worlds apart.

 

Edwin Markham